huxley's letter to hofmann

[lorentzen-nicklaus]

 shaman huxley, who had sent a fresh exemplar of "island" to hofmann with the   
 dedication "to dr. albert hofmann, the original discoverer of the   
 moksha-medicine, from aldous huxley" wrote to albert hofmann in the february of 
 1962: " ... i have good hopes that this and similar work will result in the  
 development of a real natural history of visionary experience, in all its  
 variations, determined by differences of physique, temperament and profession, 
 and at the same time of a technique of 'applied mysticism' - a technique for 
 helping individuals to get the most out of their transcendental experience and 
 to make use of the insights from the 'other world' in the affairs of 'this 
 world' (meister eckhart wrote that 'what is taken in by contemplation must be 
 given out in love'). essentially this is what must be developed - the art of 
 giving out in love and intelligence what is taken in from vision and the 
 experience of self-transcendence and solidarity with the universe ..."

                                (quoted after "lsd - mein sorgenkind", p. 196)
 couldn't agree more: kai